"Donald Trump says he is a nationalist, but you can’t be a nationalist if you despise half the nation — any more than you can be a good father if you despise half your children. You can’t be a nationalist if you think that groups in the nation are in a zero-sum conflict with one another — class against class, race against race, tribe against tribe.
"You can’t be a nationalist if you despise diversity. America is diversity; if you don’t love diversity, you are not an American nationalist." DB
Back at the time of the Civil War "diversity" meant South and North.
Lincoln didn't like diversity.
"A house divide cannot stand." He and his party despised half the nation, as Brooks says.
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